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Originally Posted by Carl Copeland
Do you mean to say that our 21st-century minds (if we have them) can no longer look death squarely in the eye unless it’s cushioned with false comfort, defused with humor or cheapened by endless massacres on screen? If so, you may have a point.
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Ah well, it's more that, although we're always walking towards it (the distinguished thing), we don't need to be always thinking about it, which seems to have been Pushkin's problem. But who am I to pontificate on Pushkin's problems?
On thinking about the question, I think I definitely have a 20th century mind, but one from one of the century's more sheltered pockets - geographically and temporally - thankfully.
I always enjoy reading your (and Andrew's) translations. It gives me an agreeable feeling of cosmopolitan-ness. And I enjoy them as poems too.
Season's greetings, feller. (As we say over here.)
David